Radiator support



Patented Feb. 2?,l 1926.

UNITED STATES HARRY E. BARBER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

./ p RADIATOR SUPPORT.V

Apputation fusa August 1s, 1922. serial No. 532,615.

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'Be it known that I, HARRY'E. Bauman,

a citizen of the United States, `and resident -of HBoston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, hare invented certain new and useful Improvements in Radiator Supports, of which vthe following is a specihcation.v r Y rlhis invention relates to radiator sup ports such as are employed to hold a radiator in position adjacent the wall of a room, and it has for its object to provide an improved device of this kind.

Radiator supports of the class to which my invention relates have heretoforeV been constructed so as to comprise a bracket rigidly attachable to the wall of aroom and made with an integral immovable arm pro` jecting therefrom adapted to occupy a position between two of the' units of the radiator and under one end, or manifold, thereof to thereby serve as a supporting rest which bears the weight of the radiator. An example of a radiator support of this class is shov-,f'n andA described in U. S. Letters Patent "lo, 1,17 5,707 granted March 14,

1916. Radiator Vsupports of this kind as heretofore constructed had the objectionable feature thatV no provision was made for movement of the radiator under the iii-- fluence of the expansion and contraction of the pipe lines, and of the radiator itself, vth the result that the bracket and the means lby which it was fastened to the wall were subjected to injurious strains exerted side-wise against its radiator supporting arm; Also, with the constructions heretofore proposed, it was necessary, when installing the support and radiator, lto position the bracket on the wall with great cxactness relatively to the radiator, or to exactly position the radiator with. relation to the bracket, in order to have the suppor"- ing arm register with one of the openings between two of the units. My invention aims to obviate these objectionable features and it consists of a radiator support of the class described having the peculiar features of construction and mode of operation set forth in the following description, the novel features of the invention being particularly point-ed out and defined in the claims at the close thereof.

in the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of a radiator ber is support.constructed in accordance with my invention. i i Y Figure 2 is a side elevation of the radiator support shown in Fig. 1, the wall to which the support is fastened, and the radiator, 6o being indicated by dotted lnes. i Figure 3 is a sectionon line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Referring new to the drawings wherein I have .shown one embodiment of my invention, 1 represents a cast iron base member 65 provided upon its outer side with horizontal guide rods 2 and 3 near the upper and lower ends thereof, respectively. These guide rods occupy apertures provided in outstanding lugs or ears 11- that are integral with base 70 Vmember 1, each rod being threaded at one i end to engage threadsprovided within the aperture of one of its lugs and provided at its opposite end with a squarehead 5. Base member 1 is adapted to be fastened 75 to a wall 10 by any suitable means such yas an expansion bolt 6 on which the base mempreferably rendered adjustable through the provision of the elongated bolt hole 7 formed in said base member. j

To hold base member '1 in verticallyA adjusted position I' may cast the same with teeth 8V adjacent slot 7 and provide the eX- pansion bolt 6 with a washer 9 having coml plementary teeth to interlock therewith. ldfhen the bolt is screwed up tight the base j member 1 will be positively locked against; displacement relatively to the expansion bolt and wall 10.

Sldably mounted upon the guide rods 2V 90 and 3' is abracket member 11 made near its upper end with an outstanding hook-shaped arm or rest 12 adapted to` extend between two of the radiator units 13 so as to receive upon it they upper manifold 14 of the radia- 95 tor and thereby support the latter.

n order that the radiator may be ad justed so as to occupy a vertical position and be securely fastened against movement relatively to bracket member 11, I provide the latter with an adjustable abutment screw 15 against which the side of the radiator is clamped by means. of a clamping screw 16, the latter having loosely mounted thereon a wedge shaped clamping block 17; The 105 ytwo screws 15 and 16 occupy tapped holes provided in bracket member ,11 near the lower end of the latter, the screw 15 being relatively'short and adapted to engage the inner side of the radiator as shown in Fig.

Land the screw 16 being made longer and positioned to extend through the radiator betweentwo of the units withthe block 17 engaging thel latter so that when said screw is tghtened the radiator is clamped securely and immovably between the abutment screw 15 and clamping` washer 17.

It will thus be clear from the foregoing description that while the base member 1 is imn'iovably secured to the wall, yet the bracket member is free' to slide laterally on rods 2 and 3' in a direction parallel the wall either to permit the rest arm 12 to be manually positioned with relation to one of the openings between the units of the radiator when installing the latter, or to perm't of automatic adjustment of the radiator and the arm 12 on the base member when ,shifted laterally through 'the eX- guide with pansion and contraction of the radiator and pipes connected therewith.

That I claim is A wall support for radiators comprising a single one-piece wall plate formed with a Verticalv slot intermediate its upper and lower ends to receive a. bolt or the like for securing said plate to a wall; .a bracket member in front of said wall plate having` an aperture at its upper end, an aperture .at its lower end and means for fastening a radiator thereto, and two horizontally disposed guide rods on and parallel with said base plate said rods ,extending loosely through said apertures and slidably supporting said bracket member. n

' lin testimony whereof I have aixed my signature. i

HARRY E. BARBER. 

